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A pause of blissful silence followed this assurance It was broken by a little exclahtless otten to tell you, until this randot it this afternoon; also one fro Dora's affairs, I should say, to a pleasanter termination than we could have hoped for"

"Where is the Enchantress?"

"In Paris at present"

"I expected that answer"

"But listen, she is living the quietest of lives; the hter cannot excel her"

"Is she her own authority for that astonishing statement? Do you believe it?"

"Yes, under the circu went to Paris for a critical and painful operation, and Dora is giving all her love and ti his convalescence as pleasant as it can be In fact, her description of their life in the pretty chateau they have rented outside of Paris is quite idyllic When her father is able to travel they are going to Algiers for the winter, and will return to New York about next May Dora says she never intends to leave A watch on the French chateau?"

"That is over Mr Denning persuaded Dora to write a state the birth of the child She told her husband the name under which they traveled, the names of the ship, the captain, and the ship's doctor, and Mrs Denning authenticated the statement; but, oh, what a mean, suspicious creature Mostyn is!"

"What makes you reiterate that description of hiood or kind intent in this paper He proved its correctness, and then wrote Mr Denning a very conteh What did he say?"

"That the amende honorable was too late; that he supposed Dora wished to have the divorce proceedings stopped and be reinstated as his wife, but he desired the whole Denning family to understand that was now i his freedo to reiven hih this could never be atoned for, he did think he ought to be refunded the e had cost him"'